# 2006 World Figure Skating Championships

The 2006 World Figure Skating Championships was a senior international figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union. It was held at the Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary, Canada from March 19 to 26, 2006.

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | United States (USA) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 3 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Canada (CAN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | France (FRA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Russia (RUS) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (8 entries) | Totals (8 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |

## Competition notes

The competition was open to skaters from ISU member nations who had reached the age of 15 by July 1, 2005. The corresponding competition for younger skaters was the 2006 World Junior Championships.
Based on the results of the 2005 World Championships, each country was allowed between one and three entries per discipline. National associations selected their entries based on their own criteria.
None of the gold medalists from the 2006 Olympics competed at the 2006 World Championships. Stéphane Lambiel, the only defending World champion, won his event.
The compulsory dance was the Ravensburger Waltz.
Due to the large number of participants, the ladies and men's qualifying groups were split into groups A and B. This was the last World Championships to have a qualifying round. Following the 2006 Worlds, the ISU Congress voted to remove it. Following these Worlds, all skaters would compete in the short program, with the top twenty-four then advancing to the free skating.

## Results
### Men

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | QA | QA | QB | QB | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Stéphane Lambiel | Switzerland | 274.22 | 1 | 40.23 | | | 4 | 77.41 | 1 | 156.58 |
| 2 | Brian Joubert | France | 270.83 | | | 3 | 34.05 | 1 | 80.31 | 2 | 156.47 |
| 3 | Evan Lysacek | United States | 255.22 | 2 | 34.93 | | | 8 | 70.32 | 3 | 149.97 |
| 4 | Nobunari Oda | Japan | 251.21 | | | 1 | 36.23 | 3 | 78.25 | 5 | 136.73 |
| 5 | Emanuel Sandhu | Canada | 249.89 | 6 | 28.95 | | | 2 | 78.41 | 4 | 142.53 |
| 6 | Jeffrey Buttle | Canada | 241.59 | | | 2 | 34.48 | 7 | 73.30 | 7 | 133.81 |
| 7 | Johnny Weir | United States | 235.57 | | | 4 | 33.38 | 5 | 73.53 | 8 | 128.66 |
| 8 | Alban Préaubert | France | 230.95 | | | 5 | 33.18 | 17 | 61.62 | 6 | 136.15 |
| 9 | Li Chengjiang | China | 229.03 | 5 | 31.43 | | | 6 | 73.39 | 15 | 124.21 |
| 10 | Ilia Klimkin | Russia | 227.78 | 3 | 32.65 | | | 10 | 68.72 | 10 | 126.41 |
| 11 | Matthew Savoie | United States | 227.41 | | | 8 | 30.08 | 9 | 69.25 | 9 | 128.08 |
| 12 | Sergei Davydov | Belarus | 222.44 | | | 6 | 30.83 | 12 | 66.07 | 11 | 125.54 |
| 13 | Tomáš Verner | Czech Republic | 221.83 | | | 7 | 30.28 | 11 | 67.05 | 14 | 124.50 |
| 14 | Gheorghe Chiper | Romania | 219.34 | | | 9 | 29.10 | 15 | 64.95 | 12 | 125.29 |
| 15 | Zhang Min | China | 216.59 | 4 | 32.11 | | | 19 | 59.70 | 13 | 124.78 |
| 16 | Anton Kovalevski | Ukraine | 211.93 | 9 | 28.44 | | | 14 | 65.67 | 19 | 117.82 |
| 17 | Andrei Griazev | Russia | 208.37 | | | 10 | 28.83 | 21 | 57.96 | 16 | 121.58 |
| 18 | Roman Serov | Israel | 207.14 | 8 | 28.55 | | | 16 | 64.36 | 20 | 114.23 |
| 19 | Ivan Dinev | Bulgaria | 206.86 | 11 | 27.39 | | | 18 | 60.57 | 18 | 118.90 |
| 20 | Silvio Smalun | Germany | 206.58 | 7 | 28.55 | | | 13 | 65.92 | 21 | 112.11 |
| 21 | Shawn Sawyer | Canada | 201.05 | 10 | 27.80 | | | 25 | 53.23 | 17 | 120.02 |
| 22 | Gregor Urbas | Slovenia | 198.54 | | | 11 | 28.72 | 20 | 59.60 | 23 | 110.22 |
| 23 | Kristoffer Berntsson | Sweden | 192.47 | | | 12 | 25.89 | 23 | 56.21 | 22 | 110.37 |
| 24 | Trifun Zivanovic | Serbia and Montenegro | 183.05 | | | 14 | 25.22 | 22 | 56.39 | 24 | 101.44 |
| Free Skating Not Reached ||||||||||||
| 25 | Karel Zelenka | Italy | FNR | | | 13 | 25.75 | 24 | 54.66 | | |
| 26 | Viktor Pfeifer | Austria | FNR | 12 | 26.29 | | | 26 | 51.14 | | |
| 27 | Igor Matsipura | Slovakia | FNR | 13 | 25.00 | | | 28 | 50.11 | | |
| 28 | Jamal Othman | Switzerland | FNR | 14 | 24.91 | | | 27 | 50.15 | | |
| 29 | Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari | Finland | FNR | 15 | 23.48 | | | 29 | 49.08 | | |
| 30 | John Hamer | United Kingdom | FNR | | | 15 | 22.94 | 30 | 47.00 | | |
| Short Program Not Reached ||||||||||||
| 31 | Aidas Reklys | Lithuania | NQD | 16 | 23.19 | | | | | | |
| 32 | Sean Carlow | Australia | NQD | | | 16 | 21.35 | | | | |
| 33 | Alper Uçar | Turkey | NQD | | | 17 | 19.78 | | | | |
| 34 | Bertalan Zakany | Hungary | NQD | 17 | 19.25 | | | | | | |
| 35 | Michael Novales | Philippines | NQD | | | 18 | 19.16 | | | | |
| 36 | Tristan Thode | New Zealand | NQD | 18 | 18.63 | | | | | | |
| 37 | Zeus Issariotis | Greece | NQD | 19 | 17.81 | | | | | | |
| 38 | Luis Hernandez | Mexico | NQD | | | 19 | 16.44 | | | | |
| 39 | Edward Ka-yin Chow | Hong Kong | NQD | | | 20 | 15.90 | | | | |
| 40 | Justin Pietersen | South Africa | NQD | 20 | 13.78 | | | | | | |
Panel of judges Men's Qualifying Group A
* Referee: Junko Hiramatsu Japan
* Technical Controller: Steve Winkler United States
* Technical Specialist: Pirjo Uimonen Finland
* Assistant Technical Specialist: Isabel Duval de Navarre Germany
* Judge No.1 Katarina Grof Mitrovic Serbia and Montenegro
* Judge No.2 Merja Kosonen Finland
* Judge No.3 Stanislava Smidova Czech Republic
* Judge No.4 Karin Ehrhardt Austria
* Judge No.5 Francis Betsch France
* Judge No.6 Igor Obraztsov Russia
* Judge No.7 Deborah Islam Canada
* Judge No.8 Allan Böhm Slovakia
* Judge No.9 Deborah Currie United States
* Judge No.10 Nobuhiko Yoshioka Japan
Panel of judges Men's Qualifying Group B
* Referee: Ubavka Novakovic-Kutinou Serbia
* Technical Controller: Benoit Lavoie Canada
* Technical Specialist: Scott Davis United States
* Assistant Technical Specialist: Isabel Duval de Navarre Germany
* Judge No.1 Paolo Pizzocari Italy
* Judge No.2 Katarina Henriksson Sweden
* Judge No.3 Jiasheng Yang China
* Judge No.4 Marina Beschea Romania
* Judge No.5 Heinz-Ulrich Walther Germany
* Judge No.6 Teri Sedej Slovenia
* Judge No.7 Beatrice Pfister Switzerland
* Judge No.8 Alfred Korytek Ukraine
* Judge No.9 Osman Sirvan Turkey
* Judge No.10 Margaret Worsfold United Kingdom
Panel of judges Men's Short program
* Referee: Junko Hiramatsu Japan
* Technical Controller: Benoit Lavoie Canada
* Technical Specialist: Scott Davis United States
* Assistant Technical Specialist: Pirjo Uimonen Finland
* Judge No.1 Beatrice Pfister Switzerland
* Judge No.2 Francis Betsch France
* Judge No.3 Deborah Islam Canada
* Judge No.4 Nobuhiko Yoshioka Japan
* Judge No.5 Merja Kosonen Finland
* Judge No.6 Jiasheng Yang China
* Judge No.7 Heinz-Ulrich Walther Germany
* Judge No.8 Alfred Kprytek Ukraine
* Judge No.9 Allan Böhm Slovakia
* Judge No.10 Stanislava Smidova Czech Republic
* Judge No.11 Teri Sedej Slovenia
* Judge No.12 Marina Beschea Romania
Panel of judges Men's Free skating
* Referee: Junko Hiramatsu Japan
* Technical Controller: Benoit Lavoie Canada
* Technical Specialist: Scott Davis United States
* Assistant Technical Specialist: Pirjo Uimonen Finland
* Judge No.1 Beatrice Pfister Switzerland
* Judge No.2 Francis Betsch France
* Judge No.3 Deborah Islam Canada
* Judge No.4 Nobuhiko Yoshioka Japan
* Judge No.5 Merja Kosonen Finland
* Judge No.6 Jiasheng Yang China
* Judge No.7 Heinz-Ulrich Walther Germany
* Judge No.8 Alfred Korytek Ukraine
* Judge No.9 Allan Böhm Slovakia
* Judge No.10 Stanislava Smidova Czech Republic
* Judge No.11 Teri Sedej Slovenia
* Judge No.12 Marina Beschea Romania

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | QB | QB | QA | QA | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Kimmie Meissner | United States | 218.33 | | | 2 | 28.46 | 5 | 60.17 | 1 | 129.70 |
| 2 | Fumie Suguri | Japan | 209.74 | | | 1 | 28.47 | 2 | 62.12 | 2 | 119.15 |
| 3 | Sasha Cohen | United States | 208.88 | | | 3 | 27.59 | 1 | 66.62 | 4 | 114.67 |
| 4 | Elena Sokolova | Russia | 202.27 | 6 | 24.42 | | | 3 | 60.98 | 3 | 116.87 |
| 5 | Yukari Nakano | Japan | 195.65 | 2 | 27.79 | | | 6 | 59.62 | 6 | 108.24 |
| 6 | Sarah Meier | Switzerland | 195.11 | | | 5 | 24.64 | 4 | 60.51 | 5 | 109.96 |
| 7 | Joannie Rochette | Canada | 189.41 | 1 | 29.28 | | | 7 | 56.38 | 8 | 103.75 |
| 8 | Emily Hughes | United States | 184.75 | 3 | 25.68 | | | 10 | 54.23 | 7 | 104.84 |
| 9 | Susanna Pöykiö | Finland | 180.06 | | | 7 | 23.13 | 9 | 54.28 | 9 | 102.65 |
| 10 | Kiira Korpi | Finland | 176.65 | 5 | 25.44 | | | 11 | 53.32 | 10 | 97.89 |
| 11 | Yoshie Onda | Japan | 172.46 | | | 6 | 23.39 | 12 | 52.49 | 12 | 96.58 |
| 12 | Carolina Kostner | Italy | 172.45 | 4 | 25.64 | | | 16 | 48.95 | 11 | 97.86 |
| 13 | Mira Leung | Canada | 168.80 | | | 4 | 24.77 | 14 | 49.49 | 13 | 94.54 |
| 14 | Elene Gedevanishvili | Georgia | 164.92 | 9 | 20.72 | | | 8 | 54.55 | 17 | 89.65 |
| 15 | Idora Hegel | Croatia | 163.58 | 7 | 23.26 | | | 17 | 48.31 | 14 | 92.01 |
| 16 | Liu Yan | China | 159.05 | 8 | 21.16 | | | 19 | 46.17 | 15 | 91.72 |
| 17 | Amanda Nylander | Sweden | 154.08 | | | 10 | 19.79 | 18 | 46.30 | 19 | 87.99 |
| 18 | Tuğba Karademir | Turkey | 153.25 | | | 14 | 18.94 | 22 | 44.47 | 16 | 89.84 |
| 19 | Arina Martinova | Russia | 149.89 | | | 13 | 18.95 | 15 | 48.96 | 21 | 81.98 |
| 20 | Galina Efremenko | Ukraine | 149.65 | 14 | 16.22 | | | 21 | 44.69 | 18 | 88.74 |
| 21 | Anastasia Gimazetdinova | Uzbekistan | 149.43 | 11 | 19.00 | | | 13 | 49.50 | 22 | 80.93 |
| 22 | Júlia Sebestyén | Hungary | 142.30 | | | 11 | 19.77 | 24 | 38.53 | 20 | 84.00 |
| 23 | Valentina Marchei | Italy | 141.51 | | | 12 | 19.12 | 20 | 45.06 | 23 | 77.33 |
| 24 | Annette Dytrt | Germany | 137.31 | 10 | 19.47 | | | 23 | 41.90 | 24 | 75.94 |
| Free Skating Not Reached ||||||||||||
| 25 | Viktória Pavuk | Hungary | FNR | | | 8 | 21.31 | 28 | 36.34 | | |
| 26 | Katarina Gerboldt | Russia | FNR | 13 | 17.58 | | | 27 | 36.59 | | |
| 27 | Michelle Cantu | Mexico | FNR | | | 15 | 15.98 | 25 | 38.09 | | |
| 28 | Nadège Bobillier | France | FNR | | | 9 | 19.89 | 29 | 33.61 | | |
| 29 | Andrea Kreuzer | Austria | FNR | 15 | 15.89 | | | 26 | 37.43 | | |
| 30 | Teodora Poštič | Slovenia | FNR | 12 | 18.96 | | | 30 | 30.77 | | |
| Short Program Not Reached ||||||||||||
| 31 | Miriam Manzano | Australia | NQD | | | 16 | 15.88 | | | | |
| 32 | Roxana Luca | Romania | NQD | | | 17 | 15.53 | | | | |
| 33 | Tammy Sutan | Thailand | NQD | 16 | 14.83 | | | | | | |
| 34 | Sonia Radeva | Bulgaria | NQD | 17 | 14.56 | | | | | | |
| 35 | Diane Chen | Chinese Taipei | NQD | 18 | 13.66 | | | | | | |
| 36 | Ksenia Jastsenjski | Serbia and Montenegro | NQD | 19 | 13.45 | | | | | | |
| 37 | Jacqueline Belenyesiová | Slovakia | NQD | | | 18 | 13.28 | | | | |
| 38 | Choi Ji-eun | South Korea | NQD | 20 | 13.23 | | | | | | |
| 39 | Olga Zadvornova | Latvia | NQD | 21 | 12.72 | | | | | | |
| 40 | Alisa Kireeva | Ukraine | NQD | | | 19 | 12.49 | | | | |
| 41 | Jenna-Anne Buys | South Africa | NQD | | | 20 | 12.35 | | | | |
| 42 | Laura Fernandez | Spain | NQD | 22 | 11.77 | | | | | | |
| 43 | Elena Muhhina | Estonia | NQD | | | 21 | 10.58 | | | | |
| WD | Kristina Mikhailova | Belarus | | | | | | | | | |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Pang Qing / Tong Jian | China | 189.20 | 2 | 64.98 | 1 | 124.22 |
| 2 | Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao | China | 186.42 | 1 | 65.58 | 4 | 120.84 |
| 3 | Maria Petrova / Alexei Tikhonov | Russia | 186.22 | 3 | 63.04 | 2 | 123.18 |
| 4 | Rena Inoue / John Baldwin | United States | 183.17 | 6 | 60.90 | 3 | 122.27 |
| 5 | Valérie Marcoux / Craig Buntin | Canada | 181.09 | 4 | 62.66 | 5 | 118.43 |
| 6 | Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy | Germany | 170.08 | 5 | 61.24 | 7 | 108.84 |
| 7 | Jessica Dubé / Bryce Davison | Canada | 169.72 | 7 | 58.81 | 6 | 110.91 |
| 8 | Julia Obertas / Sergei Slavnov | Russia | 164.16 | 8 | 55.60 | 8 | 108.56 |
| 9 | Dorota Zagórska / Mariusz Siudek | Poland | 160.79 | 9 | 55.05 | 9 | 105.74 |
| 10 | Tatiana Volosozhar / Stanislav Morozov | Ukraine | 147.90 | 11 | 50.87 | 10 | 97.03 |
| 11 | Marcy Hinzmann / Aaron Parchem | United States | 140.22 | 10 | 52.84 | 13 | 87.38 |
| 12 | Maria Mukhortova / Maxim Trankov | Russia | 135.70 | 12 | 46.67 | 12 | 89.03 |
| 13 | Marylin Pla / Yannick Bonheur | France | 135.02 | 14 | 44.55 | 11 | 90.47 |
| 14 | Dominika Piątkowska / Dmitri Khromin | Poland | 123.37 | 13 | 44.67 | 14 | 78.70 |
| 15 | Rumiana Spassova / Stanimir Todorov | Bulgaria | 117.61 | 16 | 40.22 | 15 | 77.39 |
| 16 | Marina Aganina / Artem Knyazev | Uzbekistan | 114.52 | 15 | 41.17 | 16 | 73.35 |
| 17 | Stacey Kemp / David King | United Kingdom | 106.10 | 18 | 36.14 | 18 | 69.96 |
| 18 | Mari Vartmann / Florian Just | Germany | 105.49 | 19 | 32.96 | 17 | 72.53 |
| 19 | Julia Beloglazova / Andrei Bekh | Ukraine | 104.83 | 17 | 37.80 | 19 | 67.03 |
| 20 | Emma Brien / Stuart Beckingham | Australia | 86.84 | 20 | 31.74 | 20 | 55.10 |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Nation | Total points | CD | CD | OD | OD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviski | Bulgaria | 199.14 | 1 | 38.46 | 1 | 60.94 | 3 | 99.74 |
| 2 | Marie-France Dubreuil / Patrice Lauzon | Canada | 198.69 | 2 | 38.31 | 3 | 59.81 | 1 | 100.57 |
| 3 | Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto | United States | 196.74 | 3 | 37.59 | 4 | 59.65 | 4 | 99.50 |
| 4 | Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas | Lithuania | 195.87 | 5 | 36.52 | 5 | 59.60 | 2 | 99.75 |
| 5 | Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder | France | 195.44 | 4 | 37.30 | 2 | 60.02 | 5 | 98.12 |
| 6 | Galit Chait / Sergei Sakhnovski | Israel | 181.29 | 6 | 34.77 | 7 | 54.59 | 6 | 91.93 |
| 7 | Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin | Russia | 178.39 | 7 | 34.11 | 6 | 55.06 | 7 | 89.22 |
| 8 | Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali | Italy | 172.10 | 9 | 32.60 | 10 | 51.42 | 8 | 88.08 |
| 9 | Melissa Gregory / Denis Petukhov | United States | 171.06 | 10 | 32.37 | 9 | 52.24 | 10 | 86.45 |
| 10 | Megan Wing / Aaron Lowe | Canada | 170.51 | 8 | 32.90 | 8 | 52.54 | 11 | 85.07 |
| 11 | Sinead Kerr / John Kerr | United Kingdom | 167.83 | 12 | 30.02 | 11 | 51.32 | 9 | 86.49 |
| 12 | Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski | Russia | 162.15 | 11 | 31.10 | 16 | 46.54 | 12 | 84.51 |
| 13 | Christina Beier / William Beier | Germany | 154.94 | 13 | 29.67 | 14 | 46.82 | 13 | 78.45 |
| 14 | Kristin Fraser / Igor Lukanin | Azerbaijan | 154.28 | 14 | 29.40 | 13 | 46.92 | 15 | 77.96 |
| 15 | Nathalie Péchalat / Fabian Bourzat | France | 154.00 | 15 | 29.31 | 12 | 48.28 | 17 | 76.41 |
| 16 | Morgan Matthews / Maxim Zavozin | United States | 152.97 | 16 | 29.09 | 18 | 45.59 | 14 | 78.29 |
| 17 | Nozomi Watanabe / Akiyuki Kido | Japan | 152.96 | 17 | 28.47 | 15 | 46.82 | 16 | 77.67 |
| 18 | Nóra Hoffmann / Attila Elek | Hungary | 150.78 | 18 | 28.47 | 17 | 46.10 | 18 | 76.21 |
| 19 | Alexandra Kauc / Michał Zych | Poland | 144.21 | 19 | 26.82 | 20 | 44.24 | 19 | 73.15 |
| 20 | Alexandra Zaretski / Roman Zaretski | Israel | 140.14 | 24 | 25.49 | 22 | 43.52 | 20 | 71.13 |
| 21 | Anna Zadorozhniuk / Sergei Verbillo | Ukraine | 139.72 | 21 | 26.03 | 21 | 43.70 | 21 | 69.99 |
| 22 | Yu Xiaoyang / Wang Chen | China | 136.14 | 23 | 25.71 | 23 | 40.82 | 22 | 69.61 |
| 23 | Elena Romanovskaya / Alexander Grachev | Russia | 135.43 | 20 | 26.33 | 19 | 45.17 | 24 | 63.93 |
| 24 | Alla Beknazarova / Vladimir Zuev | Ukraine | 132.00 | 22 | 25.72 | 24 | 40.56 | 23 | 65.72 |
| Free Dance Not Reached ||||||||||
| 25 | Olga Akimova / Alexander Shakalov | Uzbekistan | FNR | 27 | 23.67 | 25 | 39.80 | | |
| 26 | Laura Munana / Luke Munana | Mexico | FNR | 26 | 24.54 | 27 | 38.92 | | |
| 27 | Kamila Hájková / David Vincour | Czech Republic | FNR | 28 | 23.44 | 26 | 39.41 | | |
| 28 | Natalie Buck / Trent Nelson-Bond | Australia | FNR | 29 | 21.41 | 28 | 36.17 | | |
| 29 | Alisa Allapach / Peter Kongkasem | Thailand | FNR | 30 | 21.22 | 29 | 34.88 | | |
| WD | Anastasia Grebenkina / Vazgen Azrojan | Armenia | | 25 | 25.17 | | | | |